FRACHTER

For FRACHTER, the message sets the tone. This is precisely why the sextet from Würzburg and Leipzig places the lyrics at the centre of musical color and energy. In their compositions, the six musicians around singer Julia Frach express what touches them with sensually energetic urgency. Her slogan “we transport what moves us” provides a varied style with groovy lines and free solos. Already in 2016, the cast, whose instrumentation is looking for their peers, convinced at the Jazz Competition of the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg.

In addition to the jazz-typical rhythm group, freighter has a button-accordion, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, electric guitar sounds and vocals. In 2020, her debut album virgo, Maifernfahrt, on which her own compositions can be found alongside newly interpreted hits by Sting, Henry Purcell or Justin Timberlake. With the scholarship "young art and new ways", the sextet realized a documentation of her street music tour in Leipzig in 2022.

In 2023 FRACHTER is twice part of "TONKÜNSTLER live special" of the Bavarian Tonkünstlerverband and plays with her concert series On a glass of cultural centerpieces along the Main.